BLACKMAILER SENTENCED
THREE YEARS’ HARD LABOUR. [per press association.] CHRISTCHURCH. February 11. A sentence of three years' imprisonment with hard labour, was imposed to-day by Mr. Justice Northcroft on Joseph Dyer, who was found guilty of blackmail. “You have been found guilty of blackmail, which is in the next most 'serious category to murder.” Hie Judge told Dyer. “Only murder, which is punishable by death, carries a heavier penalty, for blackmail is punishable by imprisonment for life, so seriously is it regarded by reason of the ease and persistence with which it can be c mmitted, its difficulty of detection, and its direful results. Yours is a particularly bad example of the worst of the offences, and it is my duty to pass fsuch sentence as will deter others from it.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1938, Page 2
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